Cuff-holder



(No Model.)

J. J. OULLEY. CUFF HOLDER.

No. 466,774. Patented Jan. 12., 1892.

W/T ESSES:

INVENTOR A TTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES JOS. CULLEY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 466,774, dated January 12, 1892.

Application filed February 18, 1891. Serial No. 381,924. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES J os. CULLEY, of San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and Improved Cuff-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in cuif holders. The cuff holders commonly used are adapted to secure the cuffs to the shirt-sleeve, and as a result the cuffs never have a definiteposition in relation to the coatsleeve, one being too high and the other too low, and the position is constantly varied, and, moreover, the cuff-holders of this kind have a great tendency to wear out the shirtsleeve.

The object of my invention is to obviate these difliculties and to produce a simple form of cuff-holder which will secure the on ff to the coat-sleeve, so that it may always be held in the right position, and by means of this cuff-holder the cuff is always held in the coat-sleeve, so that when the wearer removes his coat the cuffs will be removed also and when he puts 011 his coat the cuffs will be in the right position.

To this end my invention consists in a cuffholder constructed substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a broken longitudinal section of the cult-holder, showing the same secured to a coat-sleeve and cuff. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of the main portion of the cuffholder. Fig. 3 is a detail plan of the keeperplate which is secured to the coat-sleeve, and Fig. 4c is an enlarged detail sectional view of the cuff-stud and the strip connecting with it.

The cuff A is secured inside of the sleeve B, and is held in place by the mechanism described below. A plate 0 is secured to the inner portion of the coat-sleeve, above the inner end of the cuff, said plate having centrally thereon a keeper 0', which is adapted to receive the tongue of the main plate or strip D. This strip D is long enough to extend from the keeperplate to the inner button-holes of the cuff, and its front end is bent ata right angle, as shown at d, and hinged to a stud E, which stud is inserted in the button-holes of the cuff and prevents the cuffs from moving. The stud E is hollow and has a slot 6 extending transversely across the top, and near the center one member of the stud is provided with a projecting ear 6', which extends across the slot and beneath the opposite member, and the forward end of the strip D is clasped loosely upon this ear, thus forming a hinge which allows the stud to be tilted and easily thrust through the buttonhole of a cuff. The inner end of the strip D is bent twice at a right angle, as shown. at d, thus forming a tongue (1 which is adapted to enter the keeper 0'. The main strip D has centrally on opposite sides depending parallel lugs D, which lugs are pivoted to corresponding lugs F, which extend upward from a plate F. The plate F extends rearward beneath the main strip D and is bent near the end, as shown at f, so that its free rear end will rest upon the upper part of the keeper-plate when the cuff-holder is in position within the coat-sleeve. The end of the plate F is held closely against the keeper by means of a spring G, one end of which rests upon. the plate and the opposite end of which is secured to the main strip D.

To adjust the device, the stud E is secured in the inner button-holes of the cuff "and the main strip D is hooked upon the keeper-plate, so that the tongue (1 will enter the keeper and the plate F will restupon the upper side. The natural spring of the strip D will cause the tongue to press against the inner side of the keeper, and the plate F will be pressed against the outside by the spring G, so that the cuff-holder and the cuff secured thereto will be held firmly in place. To remove the cuff from the sleeve the front end of the plate F is pressed downward and the device is pushed into the sleeve, so as to release the tongue (Z from thekeeper. \Vith this device it is not necessary to adjust the cuffs very often, as when they are once secured in the sleeve they need not be troubled again until they become soiled and need to be replaced by clean ones.

Having thus described my invention, '1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A cuff-holder comprising a plate having a keeper and adapted to be secured in asleeve, and its other end engaging thepfifset of the a base-plate provided with an offset projectbase-plate, substantially as herein shown and iug over the keeper, a plate or strip pivoted described.

to the base-plate and provided with a euffr JAMES J OS. OULLEY. stud at one end and at its other end with a iVitnesses:

tongue engaging the keeper, and a spring H. O. MACAULAY,

having one end secured to the pivoted strip H. FLETCHER. 

